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...Taiwan, Dr. Lin Shih-ku, director of the Taipei City Psychiatric Center's department of addiction science, estimates there are 200,000 addicts, or about 1% of the population; in Thailand there are an estimated 2 million speed addicts; in Indonesia the numbers could be even more appalling, though no accurate figures exist...
Taiwan is a loaded word. Just say it and images of traffic jams, crowded streets and churning factories pour forth unbidden, like evil genies from a bottle. Clearly, the island has an image problem. Most visitors land at utilitarian Chiang Kai-shek International Airport and drive to Taipei, where they spend a few days in the city's perpetual gray haze. But Taipei and the industrial west coast are only a small part of Taiwan. The rest of the island is covered with remote, forested mountains, which are laced with hundreds of hiking trails. Taiwan is home to the highest...
...catch the sunrise from the summit. The final ascent is steep but dramatic, as the glowing rays spread across the surrounding mountains. And the view from the top?a sea of clouds pierced by the peaks of the central range?is a world away from the chaotic bustle of Taipei...
...visitors to Xiamen, the Chinese city across the water, can do more than stare at Taiwanese territory: they can sail over on organized tours. A two-day visit is a good bet for non-Chinese, too, but they'd be better off starting at Taipei's Song Shan airport, 260 km away. You would expect Kinmen to be a pockmarked moonscape - during 29 years of hostilities more than 940,000 shells were fired at the island - but as your plane descends you see the reassuring orderliness of small-scale agriculture among lush, tree-covered hills. Air-conditioned buses then take...
...CRITICS LOVE IT This is elevated soap opera filmed with patience and subtlety. A Taipei family tiptoes individually and together to the precipice of crisis: a father whose business needs a new-media fix from a Japanese swami (the marvelous Issey Ogata), a mother who seeks emotional solace in a Buddhist retreat, plus other hearts breaking from romantic despair or breaking down from old age. Opening with a wedding fracas and closing with a funeral, Yi Yi puts the trials of three generations delicately on view...